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IPPLAUDING SPECTATORS hailed Trojan band and Pa-Coast conference float bearing Homecoming Queen fcmet Anderson along Rose Parade's line of march on New
—Courtesy Pasadena Star-News
Year's day. This picture was taken looking west along Colorado street in Pasadena. Leading the SC band is Tommy Walker. Millions saw parade in person and on TV.
Float. Band Win Praise at Rose Parade
by Pat Brink
Isadona. scene of SC’s win Wisconsin, was also the spot incther SC first—this in the fe edition of the Rose Parade. 5C won first place in division educational institutions, of le parade with a float using the lome “Fight On for Old SC.”
The float was 30 feet long, 15 feet wide, and 15 feet high and carried Jan Anderson, Helen of Troy, seated on a throne behind which rose the block letters £C, done in rust and gold chrysanthi-mums.
In front of the throne was a huge football from which spilled roses, symbolic of the day’s Rose Bowl game. Pacific Coast conference schools were represented on the float with three-foot high drums on which names of the schools were spelled out in the schools’ colors on the sides of the drums.
The float was entered by the Pacuic Coast conference and was designed by Dean Bernard L. Hyink and Band Director- Tommy Walker for SC. The work on the
| float was done by Projects associated.
SC was also represented in the parade with its band and a Trojan horse. The 104-man unit, under the direction of Walker, marched in the parade as the official Pacific Coast conference band.
A jet black “Trojan” horse carrying Mike Murray dressed as a Trojan warrior with a red cape and golden helmet accompanied the float in the parade.
SC had an unofficial entry in tlie parade with a chariot which carried trumpet eers dressed in red, white, and gold with bronze Trojan helmets.
The chariot, which was drawn by four milk white horses, brought cries of “Fight On” from a crowd which did not realize the chariot is traditional with the parade, symbolic of chariot races which used to precede the Rose Bowl ! game.
A Wisconsin float, entered by the state of Wisconsin, forecast the Rose Bowl game by taking second place in the state division, i Colorado won first spot.
The SC band, which also performed before the game and at half-time, taegan its day by gathering at 5:45 a.m. They assembled in Pasadena at 7:30 and began their five-mile parade march at 9:15, according to Director Walker.
“We got our biggest thrill of the day w’hen we entered the stadium and heard the big roar from the rooting section,” said Walker, who w^as a member of 1948 SC Rose Bowl team.
“Last time I didn’t even get off the bench,” reminisced Walker who place kicked for the ’47 j team. The game was won 49 to 0 by Michigan.
H^lftime stunts by the band included tributes to countries who made news during the last year, i Mexico’s newr president, England’s new queen, and Finland’s Olym-: pic games were honored.
Greetings to the band were extended to the band after the half-time by an aide to the president of Mexico. The aide congratulated the band and thanked them for the halftime tribute.
The parachutist who dropped over the Rose Bowl disconcerted Walker. He thought that the crofvd w as expressing ils displeasure at the band’s performance. The crowd liked the music.
He said that some persons thought the stunt wras planned and that the dummy used at the Army game earlier this year was being dropped as part of the halftime activities.
“The whole band was responsible for the show and I hope that the audience appreciates the added effort the band members put in to make the day a success,” said Walker. “We made up our minds that we wouldn’t be outdone.”
The band had to put in some extra effort when one of the three buses hired to transport the band to aqd from Pasadena broke down and had to be pushed. A dead battery that couldn’t be recharged forced 110 band members into the two remaining buses, causing the band to end their 13-hous day packed like sardines in a can, Walker said.
Opera to Have World Debut On SC Campus
The world premiere of "Volpone,” a satirical opera created by the opera workshop of the School of Music, will be presented Friday in Bovard auditorium at 8:30 p.m.
Adapted from Ben Johnson’s play about a 16th century confi dence man of Venice, the opera will be sung in English. It will be directed by Carl Ebert, head of the S(3 opera department.
The opera will be repeated at the same place and hour Satur day and Jan. 16 and 17. A typical Elizabethan satire on a miser’: lust, the opera centers on the ro mantic and financial intrigues of a crafty, hypocritical Venetian nobleman.
Experienced Talent
The opera was created and will be performed by experienced tai ent, including several persons connected with SC.
George Antheil, composer of the opera, has written two others Alfred Perry, who wrote the li brotto, has collaborated on motion picture work with Antheil Wolfgang Martin, musical director, will appear by arrangement with MGM.
Director Ebert has just re turned to SC from Milan where he directed the opening opera of the La Scala season. He is noted for his ability to effect dramatically what the composer and librettist intended.
Principal Roles
Paul Kreast of Los Angeles, who will sing the leading role, has had extensive experience in musicals and operas.
Sets, designed by Harry Horn er of Hollywood, were constructed by Marcus Fuller of the SC drama faculty.
Caesar Curzi and Marvin Hayes, both SC students, will have prin cipal roles.
Curzi. a young Oakland tenor who enrolled in the opera workshop here this fall, has appeared frequently before Pacific Coast audiences, including performances with the Pacific Opera company and the San Francisco symphony.
SC pebut
Hayes, bass, will be making his debut when he sings the role of Voltore, one of the three greedy legacy-hunters awaiting Volpone’s death. He has studied for four years under William Vennard. head of the voice department, and will graduate in February.
Singing the lead roles on opening night wall be Paul Keast as Volpone; Caesar Curzi as his servant Mosca; and Phyllis Althor as Pepita, Volpone’s mistress.
In supporting roles will be Chris Lachona, Francis Barnes, Marvin Hayes, Marilyn Hall, Grace-Lynne Cartin, Monas Har-land, Manuel Leonardo, Henny Ekstrom, Barbara Dunbar, Harold Enns, and John Noschese.
Tickets are on sale at the SC ticket office and may be reserved by telephoning PRospect 6611.
. LAS president, 1932
THOMAS KUCHEL . . . U. S. Senator, 1953
Kuchel First U.S. Senator From SC
by Charlie Barnett
The New Year had a happy beginning for Troy in politics as well as football.
Thomas H. Kuchel, whose early political career included a term as LAS president at SC, celebrated the arrival of 1953 by becoming *the first Trojan alumnus to represent California in the United States Senate.
Kuchel, form erly California state controller, was appointed by Gov. Earl Warren to fill the senate seat left vacant New Year’s Day by Vice-President-elect Richard M. Nixon.
Missed Game
Nixon spent his last day of sen-atorship by grand-marshaling the Rose Parade and watching Troy’s victory over Wisconsin.
The new senator, who is president of the Sacramento SC Alumni club and an enthusiastic Trojan football fan, had to give up his plans of seeing the game for a plane trip to Washington. By making his senatorial debut Friday morning Kuchel served a 36-hour term in the 82nd Congress and thereby gained seniority over 83rd Congress senators who took office Saturday.
Kuchel (pronounced Kee’kul) received his AB in 1932 and is a law school graduate of 1935.
Young Senator Although he is one of the nation’s youngest* senators, Kuchel, 42r has had 15 years’ experience in California state governmental positions.
Kuchel is a native of Anaheim, and Orange County city founded by his grandparents in 1859. He was graduated from Anaheim nigh school and entered SC in 1928.
As an SC undergradua te Kuchel was very active as a student leader. His first office was president of the LAS sophomore class. Campus Leader The next year he was elected president of the junior class of LAS and represented college on the student Legislative council
(now called the ASSC Senate).
As a senior Kuchel was LAS president and again served on the Legislative council. He was president of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and a member of the interfrater-nity council. He also served on the Freshman Advisory committee, the group in charge of orientation. He won the Bowen cup, inter-class oratorical trophy.
Scholastic Honors California's new junior senator was also a scholastic leader while at Troy. He completed his undergraduate work with a 2.1 grade point average and was selected as a member of Phi Kappa Phi, national scholastic honorary.
He majored in political science and had a 2.4 average in his major classes. He was selected for membership in Pi Sigma Alpha, national honorary political science fraternity.
Kuchel’s other classes included 18 units of speech, 14 units of international relations, and 10 units of journalism.
'Following his cul laude gradua-(Continued on Page 4)
Five-Day Sign-Up Period Set
To facilitate registration for the spring semester, two widely separated terms of registration will be used this year.
The first, pre-registration, will start tomorrow and qon-tinue through Jan. 10. Registration material for this five-day period is no# available in Owens Annex, Door B.
Originally, pre-registration was scheduled for the week of final examinations, but the dates were changed because of objections from students and instructors.
Schedule Told
Pre-registration lines will be open to both University Park and University College students regularly enrolled this semester and will be conducted according to the following alphabetical schedule:
Tuesday A-B, 9 a.m.; C-E, 10:30; F-H, 1 p.m.; Wednesday, I-L, 9 a.m.; M-N, 10:30; O-S, 11; Thursday, T-Z. 9 a.m.; and any letter, Thursday afternoon, all day Friday, and Saturday until 1 p.m.
Pre-registration will be held in the west end of Commons basement.
Regular registration for spring semester starts Feb. 4, and will continue through Feb. 7. This registration will be held in the Physical Education building.
Cards Revised
To save time and confusion during the registration periods, class cards have undergone a revision this year. In the past, three different class cards have been used, white, green, and yellow.
Starting now only one card will be used for all classifications, and it should be noted when you receive your cards that the “R” ai.d “H” now precede the class number instead of following this number as in the past.
Instructions on the cards are self-explanatory. Registration by mail will not be used this spring.
Overflow Spills Into the Aisles
105,000 in Rose Bowl
by Tom Pflimlin
The famous New York musical, “Two in the Aisle,” could have been compared an exaggerated manner to the critical situation wiiich arose during the Rose Bowl game when hundreds of unexpected “guests” dropped in and had to resort to sitting on the Bowl’s steps two abreast.
An estimated 105,000 spectators jammed the Bowl including 8,000 sitting on temporary bleachers and 3000 seated on the stairways or standing wherever space was available.
Tumstyles began turning when the gates opened at 11 a.m., but eager fans had begun a morning
waiting-line vigil at 9 a.m.
Blobs of bright red were in all corners of the Bowl which verified the presence of some 30,000 Wisconsin rooters. The other patrons were either Trojan rooters or “unidentifieds” who didn't have colors showing.
California Senator and Vice-President elect Richard Nixon and wife Pat put in an appearance at the game as did Rose Queen Leah Feland and her six attendants.
The Badgers’ outstanding band, numbering 150, entered the Bowl
(Continned on Pace 4)
SO RETURNS GRID SUPREMACY TO WEST
by JIM FRAMPTON
Pacific Coast conference football and denizens of the Western slopes can once more hold their heads up high.
For the athletic honor of the -Far West has been preserved and reaffirmed by a band of hardy, broad-shouldered athletes from the University of Southern California.
More than the explosive, well-executed touchdown pass from Rudy Bukich to Al Carmichael that produced the lone tally, more than the inspired defensive line play that throttled the vaunted offense of the Wisconsin Badgers, and more than the come-through efforts of Tailback Eukich, Signal-Caller George Bosanic, and Safetyman Frank Clayton, it was
• team victory that brought this first PCC win over the Big Ten, a hard-earned win by a slim 7-0 margin. Seven precious points that drowned Wisconsin and ended a seven-year drought.
And for Coach Jess Hill, it was probably his sweetest victory in a laurel-filled sports career. Jess has the distinction of being the first Rose Bowl participant to coach a winner in the Arroyo Seco &ucer. He was a fullback on the 1929 SC grid team that smashed Pittsburgh 47-14 on New Year’s Day, 1930.
SC now ranks as the top Rose Bowler around with a record of 9 triumphs in 11 tries. SC was the last Western repre-
sentative to emerge on the long end at Pasadena, beating Tennessee, 25-0, in 1945.
A new record was set during the action ancft deservedly so, it was set mainly through efforts of the consensus player-of-the-game, Rudy (the Rifle) Bukich, the 22-yearrOld senior from St. Louis. The 18 pass completions made by SC, 12 by Rudy, three by the later-to-be-injured Jimmy Sears, and three by Aramis Dandoy, set a new Rose Bowl all-time standard.
And the show stopper of the eighteen was one of Rudy’s characteristic arching lobs that threaded the needle like an accomplished seamstress. “It was a beautiful pass,” said receiver Hoagy Carmichael later, “but it came at me so slowly that I was afraid some Wisconsin guy would pick it off.”
The pass play, which was called by Bozanic with second down and inches to go on the 22-yard-line, had the ends cross downfield and Carmichael delay two counts and then swing out wide and cut back to the middle. Hoagy was flanked by two defenders when he caught the decisive aerial, but had craftily outmaneuvered them out.of his way. Consequently when the ball settled into his happy arms there wasn’t a Badger within ten yards.
“Except for one pass, I had all the time I needed to throw,” Rudy averred in the locker rooms after the final gun.
And pictures of the game have since revealed that his excellent protection was a major factor in the effectiveness of the SC air attack, taking nothing, of course) from Bukich’s masterful performance.
Perhaps one of the sagest comments on the game was made by none other than Dick Hyland, who said in Friday’s Times, “In the second half “attrition” took over and the physical conditioning that Jess Hill had given his Trojans won the ball game. For once a Western team did not fold in the second half.” ’
Apparently, Coach Hill discovered the winning formula for New Year’s Day at Pasadena, an elusive little formula which had escaped his hapless predecessors. No better conditioned, harder-hitting-in-the-final-period team had ever hit the Seco sod, and Coach Ivy Williamson oi the Badgers expressed the sentiments of other coaches who had opposed the Trojans this year, “Why, they seem to get stronger as the game wears on.”
“SC won fair and squarely,” said Ivy, “nothing flukey. But we certainly muffed plenty of opportunities. And in such a game I imagine the loser always feels that he could just as well have won.”
Hill’s paradoxical implication was that Wisconsin was a better offensive team than UCLA, although scoring 5 less
points than the Bruins; and that UCLA was superior defensively to the Badgers, despite the fact that Troy had tallied a pair of TDs agains the Bruins. Jess said this was SC’s best game of the year* “because when you beat the Big Ten in the Rose Bowl it has to be.”
But the Wisconsin candle did not burn out till the final gun had echoed through the Pasadena canyons. A tying pass juggled on the fingers of Halfback Hariand Carl in the end zone with scant moments left and the flame flared bright, but was rudely snuffed out by pressure, nerves, and the alert defense work of Harry Welch.
And from then Wisconsin’s chances were about as good as those of the once-stalwart goal posts, that went down and carried with them the idea of the Big Ten’s pigskin supremacy.
So before he curtain falls on the 1952-1953 Trojan gridiron warhorse, the spotlight should once more be cast on the sturdy men of Bovard who didn’t fall apart as some had said, men who were capable of pulling themselves up off the canvas and lashing out with renewed vigor, men who had the know-how and the conditioning but more than that the will to win, men who earned the respect and praise of their op-ponens as well as their frenzied followers, and men who became one of the greatest teams to don the Cardinal and Gold-even though “they don’t have any damn offense.”
Daily
Trojan
Vol. XLIV
Los Angeles, Calif., Monday, Jan. 5, 1953
No. 65
Spring Pre-Registration Will Start Tomorrow at 9

IPPLAUDING SPECTATORS hailed Trojan band and Pa-Coast conference float bearing Homecoming Queen fcmet Anderson along Rose Parade's line of march on New
—Courtesy Pasadena Star-News
Year's day. This picture was taken looking west along Colorado street in Pasadena. Leading the SC band is Tommy Walker. Millions saw parade in person and on TV.
Float. Band Win Praise at Rose Parade
by Pat Brink
Isadona. scene of SC’s win Wisconsin, was also the spot incther SC first—this in the fe edition of the Rose Parade. 5C won first place in division educational institutions, of le parade with a float using the lome “Fight On for Old SC.”
The float was 30 feet long, 15 feet wide, and 15 feet high and carried Jan Anderson, Helen of Troy, seated on a throne behind which rose the block letters £C, done in rust and gold chrysanthi-mums.
In front of the throne was a huge football from which spilled roses, symbolic of the day’s Rose Bowl game. Pacific Coast conference schools were represented on the float with three-foot high drums on which names of the schools were spelled out in the schools’ colors on the sides of the drums.
The float was entered by the Pacuic Coast conference and was designed by Dean Bernard L. Hyink and Band Director- Tommy Walker for SC. The work on the
| float was done by Projects associated.
SC was also represented in the parade with its band and a Trojan horse. The 104-man unit, under the direction of Walker, marched in the parade as the official Pacific Coast conference band.
A jet black “Trojan” horse carrying Mike Murray dressed as a Trojan warrior with a red cape and golden helmet accompanied the float in the parade.
SC had an unofficial entry in tlie parade with a chariot which carried trumpet eers dressed in red, white, and gold with bronze Trojan helmets.
The chariot, which was drawn by four milk white horses, brought cries of “Fight On” from a crowd which did not realize the chariot is traditional with the parade, symbolic of chariot races which used to precede the Rose Bowl ! game.
A Wisconsin float, entered by the state of Wisconsin, forecast the Rose Bowl game by taking second place in the state division, i Colorado won first spot.
The SC band, which also performed before the game and at half-time, taegan its day by gathering at 5:45 a.m. They assembled in Pasadena at 7:30 and began their five-mile parade march at 9:15, according to Director Walker.
“We got our biggest thrill of the day w’hen we entered the stadium and heard the big roar from the rooting section,” said Walker, who w^as a member of 1948 SC Rose Bowl team.
“Last time I didn’t even get off the bench,” reminisced Walker who place kicked for the ’47 j team. The game was won 49 to 0 by Michigan.
H^lftime stunts by the band included tributes to countries who made news during the last year, i Mexico’s newr president, England’s new queen, and Finland’s Olym-: pic games were honored.
Greetings to the band were extended to the band after the half-time by an aide to the president of Mexico. The aide congratulated the band and thanked them for the halftime tribute.
The parachutist who dropped over the Rose Bowl disconcerted Walker. He thought that the crofvd w as expressing ils displeasure at the band’s performance. The crowd liked the music.
He said that some persons thought the stunt wras planned and that the dummy used at the Army game earlier this year was being dropped as part of the halftime activities.
“The whole band was responsible for the show and I hope that the audience appreciates the added effort the band members put in to make the day a success,” said Walker. “We made up our minds that we wouldn’t be outdone.”
The band had to put in some extra effort when one of the three buses hired to transport the band to aqd from Pasadena broke down and had to be pushed. A dead battery that couldn’t be recharged forced 110 band members into the two remaining buses, causing the band to end their 13-hous day packed like sardines in a can, Walker said.
Opera to Have World Debut On SC Campus
The world premiere of "Volpone,” a satirical opera created by the opera workshop of the School of Music, will be presented Friday in Bovard auditorium at 8:30 p.m.
Adapted from Ben Johnson’s play about a 16th century confi dence man of Venice, the opera will be sung in English. It will be directed by Carl Ebert, head of the S(3 opera department.
The opera will be repeated at the same place and hour Satur day and Jan. 16 and 17. A typical Elizabethan satire on a miser’: lust, the opera centers on the ro mantic and financial intrigues of a crafty, hypocritical Venetian nobleman.
Experienced Talent
The opera was created and will be performed by experienced tai ent, including several persons connected with SC.
George Antheil, composer of the opera, has written two others Alfred Perry, who wrote the li brotto, has collaborated on motion picture work with Antheil Wolfgang Martin, musical director, will appear by arrangement with MGM.
Director Ebert has just re turned to SC from Milan where he directed the opening opera of the La Scala season. He is noted for his ability to effect dramatically what the composer and librettist intended.
Principal Roles
Paul Kreast of Los Angeles, who will sing the leading role, has had extensive experience in musicals and operas.
Sets, designed by Harry Horn er of Hollywood, were constructed by Marcus Fuller of the SC drama faculty.
Caesar Curzi and Marvin Hayes, both SC students, will have prin cipal roles.
Curzi. a young Oakland tenor who enrolled in the opera workshop here this fall, has appeared frequently before Pacific Coast audiences, including performances with the Pacific Opera company and the San Francisco symphony.
SC pebut
Hayes, bass, will be making his debut when he sings the role of Voltore, one of the three greedy legacy-hunters awaiting Volpone’s death. He has studied for four years under William Vennard. head of the voice department, and will graduate in February.
Singing the lead roles on opening night wall be Paul Keast as Volpone; Caesar Curzi as his servant Mosca; and Phyllis Althor as Pepita, Volpone’s mistress.
In supporting roles will be Chris Lachona, Francis Barnes, Marvin Hayes, Marilyn Hall, Grace-Lynne Cartin, Monas Har-land, Manuel Leonardo, Henny Ekstrom, Barbara Dunbar, Harold Enns, and John Noschese.
Tickets are on sale at the SC ticket office and may be reserved by telephoning PRospect 6611.
. LAS president, 1932
THOMAS KUCHEL . . . U. S. Senator, 1953
Kuchel First U.S. Senator From SC
by Charlie Barnett
The New Year had a happy beginning for Troy in politics as well as football.
Thomas H. Kuchel, whose early political career included a term as LAS president at SC, celebrated the arrival of 1953 by becoming *the first Trojan alumnus to represent California in the United States Senate.
Kuchel, form erly California state controller, was appointed by Gov. Earl Warren to fill the senate seat left vacant New Year’s Day by Vice-President-elect Richard M. Nixon.
Missed Game
Nixon spent his last day of sen-atorship by grand-marshaling the Rose Parade and watching Troy’s victory over Wisconsin.
The new senator, who is president of the Sacramento SC Alumni club and an enthusiastic Trojan football fan, had to give up his plans of seeing the game for a plane trip to Washington. By making his senatorial debut Friday morning Kuchel served a 36-hour term in the 82nd Congress and thereby gained seniority over 83rd Congress senators who took office Saturday.
Kuchel (pronounced Kee’kul) received his AB in 1932 and is a law school graduate of 1935.
Young Senator Although he is one of the nation’s youngest* senators, Kuchel, 42r has had 15 years’ experience in California state governmental positions.
Kuchel is a native of Anaheim, and Orange County city founded by his grandparents in 1859. He was graduated from Anaheim nigh school and entered SC in 1928.
As an SC undergradua te Kuchel was very active as a student leader. His first office was president of the LAS sophomore class. Campus Leader The next year he was elected president of the junior class of LAS and represented college on the student Legislative council
(now called the ASSC Senate).
As a senior Kuchel was LAS president and again served on the Legislative council. He was president of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and a member of the interfrater-nity council. He also served on the Freshman Advisory committee, the group in charge of orientation. He won the Bowen cup, inter-class oratorical trophy.
Scholastic Honors California's new junior senator was also a scholastic leader while at Troy. He completed his undergraduate work with a 2.1 grade point average and was selected as a member of Phi Kappa Phi, national scholastic honorary.
He majored in political science and had a 2.4 average in his major classes. He was selected for membership in Pi Sigma Alpha, national honorary political science fraternity.
Kuchel’s other classes included 18 units of speech, 14 units of international relations, and 10 units of journalism.
'Following his cul laude gradua-(Continued on Page 4)
Five-Day Sign-Up Period Set
To facilitate registration for the spring semester, two widely separated terms of registration will be used this year.
The first, pre-registration, will start tomorrow and qon-tinue through Jan. 10. Registration material for this five-day period is no# available in Owens Annex, Door B.
Originally, pre-registration was scheduled for the week of final examinations, but the dates were changed because of objections from students and instructors.
Schedule Told
Pre-registration lines will be open to both University Park and University College students regularly enrolled this semester and will be conducted according to the following alphabetical schedule:
Tuesday A-B, 9 a.m.; C-E, 10:30; F-H, 1 p.m.; Wednesday, I-L, 9 a.m.; M-N, 10:30; O-S, 11; Thursday, T-Z. 9 a.m.; and any letter, Thursday afternoon, all day Friday, and Saturday until 1 p.m.
Pre-registration will be held in the west end of Commons basement.
Regular registration for spring semester starts Feb. 4, and will continue through Feb. 7. This registration will be held in the Physical Education building.
Cards Revised
To save time and confusion during the registration periods, class cards have undergone a revision this year. In the past, three different class cards have been used, white, green, and yellow.
Starting now only one card will be used for all classifications, and it should be noted when you receive your cards that the “R” ai.d “H” now precede the class number instead of following this number as in the past.
Instructions on the cards are self-explanatory. Registration by mail will not be used this spring.
Overflow Spills Into the Aisles
105,000 in Rose Bowl
by Tom Pflimlin
The famous New York musical, “Two in the Aisle,” could have been compared an exaggerated manner to the critical situation wiiich arose during the Rose Bowl game when hundreds of unexpected “guests” dropped in and had to resort to sitting on the Bowl’s steps two abreast.
An estimated 105,000 spectators jammed the Bowl including 8,000 sitting on temporary bleachers and 3000 seated on the stairways or standing wherever space was available.
Tumstyles began turning when the gates opened at 11 a.m., but eager fans had begun a morning
waiting-line vigil at 9 a.m.
Blobs of bright red were in all corners of the Bowl which verified the presence of some 30,000 Wisconsin rooters. The other patrons were either Trojan rooters or “unidentifieds” who didn't have colors showing.
California Senator and Vice-President elect Richard Nixon and wife Pat put in an appearance at the game as did Rose Queen Leah Feland and her six attendants.
The Badgers’ outstanding band, numbering 150, entered the Bowl
(Continned on Pace 4)
SO RETURNS GRID SUPREMACY TO WEST
by JIM FRAMPTON
Pacific Coast conference football and denizens of the Western slopes can once more hold their heads up high.
For the athletic honor of the -Far West has been preserved and reaffirmed by a band of hardy, broad-shouldered athletes from the University of Southern California.
More than the explosive, well-executed touchdown pass from Rudy Bukich to Al Carmichael that produced the lone tally, more than the inspired defensive line play that throttled the vaunted offense of the Wisconsin Badgers, and more than the come-through efforts of Tailback Eukich, Signal-Caller George Bosanic, and Safetyman Frank Clayton, it was
• team victory that brought this first PCC win over the Big Ten, a hard-earned win by a slim 7-0 margin. Seven precious points that drowned Wisconsin and ended a seven-year drought.
And for Coach Jess Hill, it was probably his sweetest victory in a laurel-filled sports career. Jess has the distinction of being the first Rose Bowl participant to coach a winner in the Arroyo Seco &ucer. He was a fullback on the 1929 SC grid team that smashed Pittsburgh 47-14 on New Year’s Day, 1930.
SC now ranks as the top Rose Bowler around with a record of 9 triumphs in 11 tries. SC was the last Western repre-
sentative to emerge on the long end at Pasadena, beating Tennessee, 25-0, in 1945.
A new record was set during the action ancft deservedly so, it was set mainly through efforts of the consensus player-of-the-game, Rudy (the Rifle) Bukich, the 22-yearrOld senior from St. Louis. The 18 pass completions made by SC, 12 by Rudy, three by the later-to-be-injured Jimmy Sears, and three by Aramis Dandoy, set a new Rose Bowl all-time standard.
And the show stopper of the eighteen was one of Rudy’s characteristic arching lobs that threaded the needle like an accomplished seamstress. “It was a beautiful pass,” said receiver Hoagy Carmichael later, “but it came at me so slowly that I was afraid some Wisconsin guy would pick it off.”
The pass play, which was called by Bozanic with second down and inches to go on the 22-yard-line, had the ends cross downfield and Carmichael delay two counts and then swing out wide and cut back to the middle. Hoagy was flanked by two defenders when he caught the decisive aerial, but had craftily outmaneuvered them out.of his way. Consequently when the ball settled into his happy arms there wasn’t a Badger within ten yards.
“Except for one pass, I had all the time I needed to throw,” Rudy averred in the locker rooms after the final gun.
And pictures of the game have since revealed that his excellent protection was a major factor in the effectiveness of the SC air attack, taking nothing, of course) from Bukich’s masterful performance.
Perhaps one of the sagest comments on the game was made by none other than Dick Hyland, who said in Friday’s Times, “In the second half “attrition” took over and the physical conditioning that Jess Hill had given his Trojans won the ball game. For once a Western team did not fold in the second half.” ’
Apparently, Coach Hill discovered the winning formula for New Year’s Day at Pasadena, an elusive little formula which had escaped his hapless predecessors. No better conditioned, harder-hitting-in-the-final-period team had ever hit the Seco sod, and Coach Ivy Williamson oi the Badgers expressed the sentiments of other coaches who had opposed the Trojans this year, “Why, they seem to get stronger as the game wears on.”
“SC won fair and squarely,” said Ivy, “nothing flukey. But we certainly muffed plenty of opportunities. And in such a game I imagine the loser always feels that he could just as well have won.”
Hill’s paradoxical implication was that Wisconsin was a better offensive team than UCLA, although scoring 5 less
points than the Bruins; and that UCLA was superior defensively to the Badgers, despite the fact that Troy had tallied a pair of TDs agains the Bruins. Jess said this was SC’s best game of the year* “because when you beat the Big Ten in the Rose Bowl it has to be.”
But the Wisconsin candle did not burn out till the final gun had echoed through the Pasadena canyons. A tying pass juggled on the fingers of Halfback Hariand Carl in the end zone with scant moments left and the flame flared bright, but was rudely snuffed out by pressure, nerves, and the alert defense work of Harry Welch.
And from then Wisconsin’s chances were about as good as those of the once-stalwart goal posts, that went down and carried with them the idea of the Big Ten’s pigskin supremacy.
So before he curtain falls on the 1952-1953 Trojan gridiron warhorse, the spotlight should once more be cast on the sturdy men of Bovard who didn’t fall apart as some had said, men who were capable of pulling themselves up off the canvas and lashing out with renewed vigor, men who had the know-how and the conditioning but more than that the will to win, men who earned the respect and praise of their op-ponens as well as their frenzied followers, and men who became one of the greatest teams to don the Cardinal and Gold-even though “they don’t have any damn offense.”
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Trojan
Vol. XLIV
Los Angeles, Calif., Monday, Jan. 5, 1953
No. 65
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